Identifying the signal of environmental filtering and competition in invasion patterns - a contest of approaches from community ecology

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1002-1011

  Gallien, Laure ^a   Carboni, Marta ^b,c   Münkemüller, Tamara ^b,c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

(dis)similarity indices; Alpha niche; Community assembly rules; Darwin's naturalization; Environmental filtering; Invasibility; Neutral assembly; Niche differentiation; Virtual ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931570211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12257     Document Type: Article

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